Penfolds Grange 2004

Grange is recognised as Australia's and indeed one of the world's finest red wines .This great wine, developed by Max Schubert commencing with the 1951 vintage, is made from low yielding Shiraz vines grown at selected vineyards in South Australia and completes fermentation in new American oak hogsheads prior to bottling. During an extensive tour of Europe in 1950, Max Schubert studied winemaking practices that have now become an integral part of maturing wine in new oak barrels, a method previously untried in Australia. The development of Grange represented the beginning of a new era in Australia's red winemaking tradition. This knowledge, combined with Max Schubert's foresight, skill & dedication, has resulted in Grange, the definitive Australian dry red wine, acknowledged to be among the world's classic wine styles.